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...Murray, a founder of Con Ed, from the depths of shanty Irish poverty to the top of the corporate utility world, a $9 million fortune, and more lace curtains than he ever could have imagined. And the story stays sweet for a while. Corry shows the first triumphant flush of Irish-Catholic society, as Murray's innumerable children factored their father's millions into a family treasury that surpassed even the Kennedys', and then built a towering wall around their neat little world of well-monied Catholicism to keep out all the heathen WASPs they had learned both to envy...
...many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting snow for drinking water. Parts of Nebraska are the driest they have been...
...unwanted growth. But last week the water supply was so low that county officials ordered a tough system of enforced rationing. Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between 32 and 49 gallons a day. That is roughly enough water to flush a toilet seven times or take a five-minute shower. The cost, moreover, will nearly triple, from 46? per 100 cu. ft. (748 gal.) to $1.22. Anyone who exceeds the ration will be billed a punishing $10 to $50 per cu. ft. for the excess...
...pail to catch the cool water her husband runs until he gets hot water for shaving. She carries it in a bucket to the kitchen to wash dishes. Then she collects the dishwater in another pail, as well as water from the clothes washer, and uses it to flush toilets. "I've spent $30 on buckets," she protests. "I'm tempted to send the bill to the water company...
...Michigan, which dimmed lights almost imperceptibly and assured that everyone got some current. As an added misery, the wells ran dry in the farm hamlet of Princeton, Kans., and people had to truck in water. But much of it was frozen, and some citizens had to use snow to flush their toilets...